Oh Belgium, how we love you UPDATE: See more analysis from journalist Jonny Jacobsen after the jump. The latest: Jonny's thoughts on the Belgian investigating magistrate, Michel Claise.

We sure picked a great day to go for a long hike.

Turns out, minutes after we left for our day-long stroll, we received an e-mail from a newspaper editor friend of ours in Ghent, Belgium. He wanted to make sure we had seen a Flemish-language story breaking the news that the Belgian government is going to prosecute the Church of Scientology as a criminal organization.